Sustainable, low-carbon fuel Hydrogen presents a significant opportunity as a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to fossil-based transport fuels.
and these costly storage problems are a barrier to its use as a transport fuel of the future.
#Supersonic Aircraft patented by an Airbus Group Company The European aeronautic defence and space company has patented a revolutionary aircraft that leaves every other supersonic jet far behind.
The sonic boom created by this aircraft is surprisingly less than that of the Concorde. The aircraft is equipped with two ramjets under its delta wings, a pair of Turbojets under the front part of the fuselage and a rocket engine at the rear end of the fuselage.
The turbojets are used for propelling the aircraft during taxiing and takeoff. The passengers and the crew are placed in hammocks for improved comfort.
Once the aircraft climbs to a certain altitude, the turbojets are retracted into the fuselage. At this point, the rocket engine is ignited at full power causing the aircraft to travel vertically like a rocket at supersonic speeds.
Because of this vertical trajectory, the energy of the supersonic boom is dissipated in all horizontal radial directions
and does not encounter the ground. The ingenuity that makes higher supersonic speeds possible lies in the pair of fins situated on the outer ends of the delta wings.
At speeds less than MACH 1, these fins are oriented horizontally. However, once the speed exceeds MACH 1
the fins are oriented vertically. This causes the centre of pressure to be maintained at the same point and thus providing greater stability.
the aircraft curves into a horizontal trajectory at which point the rocket engine is powered off and closed by a door to make it streamlined.
The ram jets are ignited then and the aircraft is propelled horizontally at supersonic speeds. At 4. 5 mach, you can reach from London to NY in 1 hr.
Currently it takes a 7 hrs flight. The flight path of this aircraft technically makes it the highest roller coaster in the world.
Let me know in the comments below how many of you would consider a roller coaster ride
while traveling around the world. Patent Information: Patent Number US 9, 079,661 Patent Title Ultra-rapid air vehicle and related method for aerial locomotion Inventors:
Prampolini; Marco, Coraboeuf; Yohann Assignee: ASTRIUM SAS (Paris, FR; EUROPEAN AERONAUTIC DEFENCE AND SPACE COMPANYADS FRANCE (Paris, FR) Appl.
morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads; and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
a Professor in the Faculty of medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. ee now discovered the DNA mbulanceand the road it takes. ekhail discovered this DNA ambulance,
and roads while conducting a study to see what role they might play in causing cancer. e expect that this may allow us to identify targets for a new class of anticancer drugs.?
Further down the road, the concept could lead to a better way to deliver therapeutic stimulation to address neurodegenerative diseases,
At CES, Nvidia showed that its software can detect objects such as cars, people, bicycles and signs, even when they are hidden partly.
which would require the personal data of all passengers flying in and out of Europe to be stored up to five years.
which believes that Wi-fi offload will dominate traffic by 2017 to deal with capacity demands from a mobile data traffic increase of more than sevenfold between 2014 and 2019 as part of a wider global growth of almost ten times.
from the outside layers inward. hat they focus on different planes is what allows for 3d image reconstruction,
Meanwhile, Dearman zero emission transport refrigeration system is extended currently in on-vehicle testing at MIRA, and will be commencing commercial on-road trials later this year.
and work on customising the transport refrigeration system for different vehicle types. Dearman is one of a number of small technology firms working with the Proving Factory,
for military transport applications. They are mechanically strong, thermally insulative and lightweight, with their structure reducing the density compared with a bulk material,
Rabiei believes that the foams could be particularly useful in making vessels to transport nuclear waste,
A two-litre petrol engine drives two fans either side of the pilot to lift the jet pack and up to 120kgs of human into the air,
along with a low-altitude parachute for use should things go wrong. After initial test flights in 2011
an updated version was shown off recently at the Paris airshow. It could fly for up to 30 minutes at speeds as fast as 74 kilometres per hour.
Pilots will be able to reach altitudes of 1, 000m taking off and landing vertically, meaning rooftops,
gardens and parking lots are all viable launchpads. In fact, Martin believes that the jetpack ability to land in confined spaces will be its selling point,
not aimed at millionaires as an expensive toy, but the emergency services. think the first responders will see that as a massive improvement to their capability,
New zealand-based Martin Aircraft recently floated on the Australian stock exchange, seeing a $50m investment from Chinese aerospace company Kuang-Chi Science,
and has been showing off a simulator of the jetpack at airshows including Paris. Jetpacks: niche hobby or future transport for the masses
#Uber backlash: taxi drivers'protests in Paris part of global revolt ot chased by a mob of taxi drivers who threw rocks,
tweeted the singer Courtney love from Charles De gaulle airport. She was caught up in what is becoming a global trend:
the backlash against Uber. French taxi drivers were protesting on Thursday at vehicles operated by drivers working for the Californian business,
which functions like a taxi-hire company, but via smartphones and without directly employing its drivers.
The taxi drivers were protesting at seeing their livelihoods threatened: it costs more than#100,000 (£71, 000) for a taxi licence in Paris. Uber drivers,
though, pay nothing, using their own cars and just paying a proportion of their takings to the company for the rides they pick up.
There has been similar anger, though not riots, in New york where taxi licences, called edallions can cost a million dollars.
If the taxi drivers of Paris and labor commission of California will let them, of course. n some ways,
Some view the taxi driversanger as a repeat of the Luddite protests of 1811, when textile workers protested
Meanwhile, in Paris the biggest threat is that the taxi drivers will withdraw their labour or sue their mployersout of existence.
Based within a railway arch, with the sound of trains running overhead from nearby London Bridge station
Their TEETH are strong enough to build a plane Forget the Killer Rabbit from Monty python,
But researchers from Portsmouth University have found their structure is so biologically strong it could be copied to make cars, boats and planes.
the hulls of boats and aircraft structures. Barber said: iology is a great source of inspiration
The pairing has produced now a single super-channel optical transport network (OTN) card with a transmission speed of a pretty hefty 1tbps, running along Proximus'optical backbone.
#A major commercial airliner will fly on animal poop this summer Wee not letting our animal waste go to waste.
This summer, United airlines will starting flying planes using fuel derived from farm animal poop and fats.
The effort is an attempt to curb the greenhouse gas emissions produced by burning jet fuel in commercial aircraft.
The first partially poo-powered flight will be a short one, taking off from Los angeles and landing in San francisco. Then for next two weeks, United will fly four to five flights a day between LA and San francisco,
all of which will contain about 30 percent biofuel. The animal-based propellent is produced by California-based Altair Fuels.
Today, United will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the largest makers of aviation biofuels.
Globally, airlines have been looking at biofuel use for some time, but this marks the biggest ever investment in alternative fuels by a major commercial airline, reports The New york times. Eventually, United plans to integrate biofuels into its entire fleet.
Typical fossil fuels used in aviation are formed from the organic remains of dead plants and animals that have been buried deep within the Earth.
Burning these fuels is great for combustion but it also releases the organic materialscarbon components into the atmosphere,
"Sperm harbors a rich population of RNA (C. Bickel/Science Translational Medicine) Krawetz has suspected long that sperm RNA might play a role in infertility.
opening the door for interoperating services down the road. The services aren't comprehensive enough to do away with passwords entirely,
In the first-of-its-kind endeavor, the National Highway Traffic safety Administration has collaborated with the Automotive Coalition for Traffic safety,
The discovery published today in the journal Nature Communications reveals the use of bacterial spores to tap evaporation energy that can be utilized for running different kinds of machines.
The navigation system worked fine, but it was duplicative of a key function that the car was already able to perform through its own navigation system.
Why do need you both? More useful was the ability to text others and tap the smartphone's music collection.
The system was reasonably good at deciphering our dictated commands. Our expectation was that it would get even better as it heard the same voice day after day.
One could easily see how long distance drivers truck drivers, in particular ould benefit from a system that lets them know
when they need to get off the road. In research settings, scientists could more accurately gather data on sleeping patterns,
The research is being spearheaded by engineers in DADSS, in conjunction with the National Highway Traffic safety Administration and the Automotive Coalition for Traffic safety,
"says Rob Strassburger, CEO of the Automotive Coalition for Traffic safety, in a statement to USA TODAY.
if the company can convert all this new traffic into users who keep coming back. Signing up to engage is one thing
and parking space-sensing cars For fans of automated autos that don need drivers, don like alcohol,
and sniff out empty parking spaces, this was a big week. On Thursday, the federal government National Highway Traffic safety Administration showed a prototype vehicle with alcohol-detection technology.
Called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or a parental-sounding DADSS for short, it features two methods for preventing drunk drivers from driving.
For those of us who have spent too much of our lifetimes cruising for empty parking spaces, BMW demonstrated this week at the Telematics Automotive conference near Detroit a differentiator that could save us time.
youe apparently lost that trademark) that can show on the car navigation system the nearby empty parking spaces and their conditions,
like hours when parking is permitted. The technology, developed by Kirkland, Washington-based Inrix, is intended also to show space availability in parking garages,
and will be rolled out to 23 cities worldwide by the end of this year. The system uses algorithms that predict
but to protect the privacy of the human drivers involved in those accidents. He has contended the driverless cars have never been at fault.
Perhaps that because they were all thinking of finding a parking space so they could get a stiff drink.
The device then responds with haptic feedback a tap that gives you the illusion youe pressed down on a physical button.
and sealed off roads surrounding the volcano, located in a tourist enclave outside the city of Temuco.
She then boarded a helicopter to survey the area. In 2010 Bachelet was criticized widely for her response to an earthquake.
which aids in assisted parking and auto-valet feature. It is an image processing platform and it will have the capability to work with inputs from up to 12 cameras.
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 kmph.
Meanwhile Drive CX has been described as the digital cockpit computer, and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system.
navigation, in-car entertainment and also monitor the driver. Using surround vision, it will provide the drivers a 360 degree view of the car in real time.
Nvidia Drive CX will act as the digital cockpit computer, and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system.
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 km h.
which shows real-time traffic to Google services, displayed a sharp decline in the traffic to Gmail from China.
The company stated that there is nothing wrong on their end. The communist government of China maintains a tight control over the nation internet.
#Flights Cancelled Due to Volcanic eruption in Japan According to the reports of the Japan Meteorological Agency Mount Aso blasted out lava debris along with plumes of ash shot into the sky up to
The CICADA (which stands for Close in Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft) is relatively cheap easy to make and totally disposable.
just as the Black Hornet mini helicopter drones were used by The british Army in Afghanistan to detect Taliban fighting units.
they might provide a clue about traffic or activity at checkpoints on roads leading into and out of difficult terrain.
But here another thing the official description of these CICADAS is unmanned n glider, nearly undetectable,
but just try to defend against a giant swarm of them launched out of the back of a plane.
Or, better yet, how about underwater aircraft carriers? As Peter W. Singer, an expert on drones and warfare, pointed out about recent DARPA initiatives,
f you are looking at other places where you might see aircraft carriers, don look up in the air, look under the water.
Yes, that right underwater aircraft carriers for drones. In yet another experiment, the U s. Naval Research Laboratory showed that it was possible to release a drone from a submerged submarine with the robotic drone shot out of a Tomahawk missile tube.
You just load them up in a plane fly really high, and drop them out the back end of a plane.
That huge, if you take into account the latest report from the GAO, which suggests that there just aren enough drone pilots out there to keep up with the military use of drones.
Cheap, simple, disposable and without the need for a human operator it no wonder, then, that the military is interested
A pilot for the project is also likely to be tested in India this year following a second stage of the USAID grant.
2015-In his latest email blast Peter Diamandis talks about four revolutions in transportation that he expects will take place within this decade.
Hawking previously had to take arduous routes, such as exiting from his communication window, navigating a mouse to run the browser,
#Aussies 3d print jet engine in world first Engineers from Monash and Deakin universities and the CSIRO have printed two gas turbine engines modelled on an"auxiliary power unit"used in aircraft like the Falcon 20, a French business jet.
One of the printed engines is currently on display at the Avalon International Airshow in Victoria,
The updated agreement now includes"new-generation semiconductors, GPS navigation systems, medical products which include magnetic resonance imaging machines, machine tools for manufacturing printed circuits, telecommunications satellites and touchscreens".
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